Richer literals: TimeSpan/DateTime/Char array/UTF8

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Richer literals: TimeSpan/DateTime/Char array/UTF8 [11109258]

Submitted by Tom Rathbone on 12/16/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Combining several suggestions for richer literals

• New literals for TimeSpan and DateTime. e.g. "01:02:03"T --> new TimeSpan(1,2,3) "2015-01-02 10:30:00"D -> new DateTime(2015,01,02,10,30,00)
• Char[] e.g "abcd"C
• UTF8 encoded strings "abc££def"U and indeed perhaps the whole mechanism should be extensible like QZRING literals

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Posted by Sergey Tihon on 12/20/2015 1:17:00 AM

F# allow you to define your own behavior for suffixes Q, R, Z, I, N & G - https://sergeytihon.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/f-kung-fu-2-custom-numeric-literals/